The Christian’s aim, Rauschenbusch believed, was not to pass through an evil world in safety, leaving the world’s evil unshaken; rather, it was to seek a moral and religious transformation of humanity in all of its social relations.
The Social Implications of Salvation
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Our Stories Will Probably Be Small, But They Will Matter
January 1, 2020 by Chris Cox

Sometimes I get discouraged because I feel like my story is very small. I live in a small city. I go to a small church in a land where churches can be quite enormous.
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Connections 04.03.2016: Free Indeed
March 27, 2016 by Michael Ruffin

Something about this story bothers me. Now, I know that slavery was an accepted part of first century Roman culture. But I also know that for a human being to own a human being violates the humanity of both.
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The Struggle Is Real
July 15, 2015 by Kimberly McClung DeVries